Vapored Angels’ relentless assault of harsh electronics and tortured instrumentals propels itself to our list of the best releases of 2024.
Tag: Guitar
Faded Saga :: Faded Saga (ENRECO)
Sun-soaked, abstract, and vintage-sounding electronics with fuzzy melodic rhythms.
Rafael Toral :: Spectral Evolution (Moikai / Drag City)
This album sees Rafael Toral manipulating various sound sources to create a vast piece that goes through really, really slow chord progressions, but echoes with such wonderful textures and dynamics that it becomes almost transcendental.
Demetrio Cecchitelli :: Unity (ROHS!)
Cecchitelli’s style reminds me a bit of Angelo Badalamenti, a chosen soundtrack composer for David Lynch, among others. It is much like his, but with some Leo Kottke added, with a similar style of guitar melodies.
Allan J. Kimmel (Departure Street) & Francisco Sanfuentes (Sonidos Precarios) :: Été/Hiver (Self Released)
You can see the respect and patience that these musicians have, they do not speak the same verbal language but they are fluent in discovering and expanding their ranges of sounds, experimental and rich with strange hypnotic harmonies.
V-Stók :: Liminal (Position Disposition)
Subtle dub extracts, instrumental tangents, and glitchy transmitted noises are more disjointed and surreal this time around.
Francisco Sonur :: Morning Trials (Time Released Sound)
Available February 5, 2021 on Time Released Sound, Francisco Sonur‘s Morning Trials is a gentle excursion into the heart and mind of a man, his […]
Dr.Nojoke :: Muaco EP (CLIKNO)
Self-described as “guitar or acoustic techno,” Dr.Nojoke offers a three-pack of new lockdown tunes for the rather upbeat technoid spheres of Muaco—a form of “home-clubbing.” […]